I am quite serious when I say no other word in the English language gives me so much trouble for spelling. I hope I am not the only idiot who cannot fucking spell this word. And it’s not like this is “wankel-rotary engine” (which I confess I probably use MORE), this is NECESSARY. The word itself describes its own usefulness. We NEED it.
But I always want to write “necesarry”. It’s within the unwritten “rules” of English, if there are any, which there aren’t. I could write “neseserrie” and it’s still okay.
The trouble comes with that double-S single-R at the end. I seem to be addicted to the -arry spelling of the AR-e sound, as in “carry” and “marry”. What makes me feel supremely dumb is when I pull out my rhyming dictionary (just now) and find there seem to be a lot more words that end in -ary, words such as “scary”, “binary”, “arbitrary”, “fiduciary”, and even other loved words, like “supernumerary” and “eleemosynary“.
“Necesarry” still looks okay to me. Can’t I please get away with misspelling this word without feeling like a doofus? I can spell everything else…Doesn’t everybody get one?
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